Fig. 7
Organization of the initially triple, then double overlapping reading frame region of hepatitis C virus (HCV) (GenBank M62321.1). The top gene organization map is adapted from Fig. 1 a of [23]. All coding regions mentioned in the following include a terminal stop codon. The second line depicts the core in-frame protein, coded in nucleotides 342–915. Next, a 1.5 kDa protein is coded in nucleotides 344–383, while protein F is coded in nucleotides 346–829. The double stem-loop frameshift stimulating signal (FSS) is found at nucleotides 365-501; the FSS structure is depicted in Fig. 8